[Vivtek]

This screed is essentially pure-quill mental imbalance. I was in school in America in 1979, too. I subscribed to BYTE, Science 80, the whole nine yards. My teachers were ecstatic about my love for science, not even once trying to dissuade me from my eager pursuit of the future.

So right on the face of it, you're just flat wrong. And then you go right off the rails screeching about Communist influence as though this were anything but raving paranoia.

I'm a liberal Quaker (Quakerism far predates Communism) and - you know what? - I seem to have been left off the distribution list from Moscow.

Basically, all I can think when I read this is that you need to get back on your meds. "Pathologically insane ideas," my ass. How anybody can view liberalism as an attack on the Enlightenment - when it is the Enlightenment - is frankly flabbergasting.

[RyJones]

I miss OMNI. I keep hoping they issue a DVD of all the issues.

[fit2rule]

>get back on your meds.

Proof enough that the Liberalism of which you speak is stuck well and truly in its new authoritarian roots.

[philwelch]

It's frustrating when Americans confuse leftism for liberalism but they are distinct concepts.